Shane Newell joined the Orange County Register as a community reporter covering Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel. He now covers Temecula and Murrieta for The Press-Enterprise. He graduated from Stanford University in 2016 with a M.A. in communication. He earned his bachelor's in journalism from Long Beach State in 2015. Among his favorite stories was his 2016 feature on Monday Morning Quarterback's Peter King and his life as one of the nation's most prolific NFL reporters.

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